miya of the moon

NICKNAME: "my moon", "my moonlight", plus other various pet names from her husband. no nicknames between friends.
AGE: 26
HEIGHT: 5'02"
ORIENTATION: bisexual but really jargalsexual.
MARITAL STATUS: married and devoted to jargal
CHILDREN: khair & asuka, twin boy and girl; munkhbat, boy.
OCCUPATION: maelstrom officer, clinic healer
PATRON DEITIES: nhaama
EYE COLOR: light blue
HAIR COLOR: silvery, blueish-white
PHYSIQUE: fit, strong, but not overly muscled. soft from two pregnancies.
SCENT: vanilla, roses, faint medicinal smells
NOTABLE TRAITS: extremely pale, colorless features; starry freckles; blue-tinged eyes, lips, and hair; a large staff on her back; glossy, iridescent scales
CANON CLASSES: white mage/conjurer, rogue, machinist, alchemist, botanist
OTHER: she's albino, but that isn't a term she knows about.

in normal conversation / overall

curious ▪ friendly ▪ shy ▪ soft-spoken ▪ observant ▪ intelligent ▪ cheerful ▪ eager to please ▪ clumsy ▪ generous ▪ kind ▪ devoted ▪ patient ▪ persistent ▪ playful ▪ talkative

in battle / while healing others / while working

confident ▪ bossy ▪ bold ▪ proactive ▪ calm ▪ level-headed ▪ strong leader ▪ resourceful ▪ fierce

breathless, icy, bright daughter of the night - who do you cry for?
keening softly 'neath the winter moon.

Should she have been born in one of the wandering tribes of the Xaela, Miya might have been hailed as a reincarnation of Nhaama, Dusk Mother and goddess of the moon. As it was, her own family had different ideas about her appearance. Stout worshipers of Azim, they beheld their pale daughter in their arms and whispered to one another that she had been cursed by Nhaama to punish them.

Against her tan-skinned family, Miya shone like a beacon, so they did everything in their power to hide her light. The rumors began circulating as soon as the wealthy and powerful Clan Kaisuri refused to announce their daughter's birth - was the child a bastard? Deformed? Not purely Raen? Kugane buzzed, eager to find a chink in the armor of the merchant family.

And so Miya was kept locked away from the public eye, nothing but an open secret.

moon-cursed. moon-blessed.

The young girl was afforded most of the luxuries of her noble upbringing - she was taught how to read and write, how to sew, how to paint, how to play the violin - but these were merely formalities. Her own parents spent very little time with her, instead leaving her to her nannies and her grandmother so they wouldn't have to look upon her moon-bright face.

Trapped, lonely, and sad, Miya spent most of her time studying medicine. Theoretical, practical, or magical, it didn't matter; she hungrily devoured any scrap of information about it. Her desire for knowledge and the peace that her violin would bring her were the only things that kept her sane most days.

Those hobbies plus her grandmother's presence, that was. "There's magic in you," her grandmother would say. "Cursed or not, I sense the magic in your soul." It was with her grandmother's encouragement that Miya began to explore that side of herself, connecting to the magic that her grandmother's grandmother had once wielded. With magic at her fingertips, she felt confident. She felt powerful.

all alone, i've waited; i held it in as i played by your rules
i've been biting my lip, but i'm losing my grip.

Upon turning twenty, Miya made her escape from her cut-throat family. Though she was the firstborn, her younger sister was meant to be the heir to the Clan and the business. She saw no future for herself in her family's grasp. With her grandmother's help and a small knapsack of some belongings, Miya left under the light of a full moon.

She had never believed the whispers that she was cursed. Nhaama had touched her, of that she was certain - but she chose to believe it was a blessing. Moonlight had always chased her every footstep, the Goddess's hand on her shoulder to guide her way. It was with this certainty that Miya took a ship to Eorzea, where she landed in Gridania and enrolled in the Conjurer's Guild.

Miya truly came into her magic at the Guild. She proved to be a powerful conjurer, able to easily connect to and communicate with the elements of the Twelveswood and beyond. She spent her time traveling between the Shroud, Thanalan, and La Noscea, going wherever her various networks told her to go. Her entire goal in life was to simply help others - the experiences she had along the way were enough payment for her.

change me into something i believe in.

However, that outlook changed when she met Maelstrom Captain Jargal. The two of them struck up a wickedly passionate romance, connecting to each other in ways they'd never experienced before. Their relationship has been nothing but a whirlwind or a forest fire - it's consumed every aspect of their lives. In fact, the two of them married barely three weeks after meeting each other.

Jargal has been teaching Miya how to really live. She's spent all of this time sacrificing her own desires for the good of other people, so he's teaching her how to find out what she wants for herself. Miya has done a lot of traveling with Jargal on his ship, The Crimson Trace, to learn more about herself and her desires. She has never been happier, more strong than she is when she's with him.

Currently, she's living in the Mists with him in their very own home. She's put in the work to become a commissioned officer of the Maelstrom and frequently works with her husband in his office while working to open a clinic of her own. They've had one set of twins and have another baby on the way.

i am the voice of the future
bring me your peace and my wounds, they will heal.

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